Hi there,

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and I got error when running the update manager, the installation of updates did not complete with the following error, how to fix that ? thanks !

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Preparing to replace libreoffice-help-en-gb 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 (using .../libreoffice-help-en-gb_1%%3a3.5.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libreoffice-help-en-gb ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): data: internal bzip2 read error: 'DATA_ERROR'
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-help-en-gb_1%%3a3.5.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/libreoffice/help/en-GB/swriter.jar'
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-help-en-gb_1%%3a3.5.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb
Error in function:

In order to try to figure out what is going on, please post the output of:
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It seems the update manager has a problem with the libreoffice-help-en-gb package.
Have you added any third party repos to your Ubuntu 12.04 sources.list?? This includes those PPA repos.
In partitcular, have you added any third party repos for Libre Office??
If so, then remove those and run update manager again and see if the problem disappears.

If you are only using the default Ubuntu 12.04 repositories, then see this bug report on Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...e/+bug/1006484
As it says there: Removing the packages libreoffice-help-en-gb and libreoffice-help-en-us avoids the problem. So you could try removing those two packages and see if the error goes away.

This is it, thanks !

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[sudo apt-get dist-upgrade]
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
libreoffice-help-en-gb
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/9,060 kB of archives.
After this operation, 18.4 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 307717 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libreoffice-help-en-gb 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 (using .../libreoffice-help-en-gb_1%3a3.5.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libreoffice-help-en-gb ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): data: internal bzip2 read error: 'DATA_ERROR'
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-help-en-gb_1%3a3.5.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/libreoffice/help/en-GB/swriter.jar'
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-help-en-gb_1%3a3.5.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

As I suspected, it seems that you have several PPA repos in your sources.list.
What are those PPA repos for? And are any of those PPA repos for Libre Office??

First, just try just removing the libreoffice-help-en-gb and libreoffice-help-en-us packages and see if the error goes away.

If that does not fix it, then you could try removing (or just comment out) those PPA repos (especially any that are Libre Office) and then running update manager again. (Note, to comment out a repo, just place a # in front of it in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, or in front of any file in your /etc/apt/sources.d/ directory).

I've some PPA no longer needed, nothing for Libreoffice, only one I use is Jupiter, the power safer for notebook.
To clean things up, I decided to remove and reinstall Libreoffice, hopeful will clear out the problem.

Also try reomiving removing the libreoffice-help-en-gb and libreoffice-help-en-us packages as I said in my last post and see if the error goes away.

If your PPA repos are no longer needed then you should most definitely remove them.

The English help file is what the update manager pop up for installation, I removed it and no more pop up even after reload, I think that's the cause of the problem, I think I still have the US one installed.